Just a quick post! One of my teachers I work with found this idea on line. You break the students into groups and give each one a piece of construction paper. Each group brainstorms nouns of that color. My sweet darlings did a great job! They came up with some creative things 🙂 I traced over their writing with a… Read More
Archives for September 2011
Fact Families
Teaching fact families has been better than ever this year! Normally I teach addition for a couple weeks, then subtraction for a couple weeks, but not this year. I decided that this year I needed to try something different. I taught addition for a week and subtraction for a week, then I taught fact families to merge the two together. Although the… Read More
Benjamin Franklin
Just like our Thomas Jefferson unit, I was looking for new and different ways to teach our history lessons. Our new teacher, Ashley, made this person once before when she taught younger grades. My students made their Ben Franklin and wrote one sentence about him. It says, he invented a lightening rod. Cute Ben Franklins Also that week we used… Read More
Thomas Jefferson
I have been researching different ways to teach my students unit. (Science and Social Studies) Science is very easy, because most of it is hands on. Social Studies, however isn’t as easy. There is a lot to learn and facts are hard for first graders. I found an idea here at Cara’s blog. Her idea was originally for George Washington,… Read More